In 2016 the taxpayers of Netherlands contributed to the European Union 335 euros per head over what they received. Since its accession to the EU the country has paid to the European Union EUR 92858 million over what it has received. Select a year in the upper right-hand corner to see details for other years.

Note that this breakdown compares fiscal transfers only and does not include other costs and benefits connected with membership in the EU (administrative costs, co-funding of EU projects, effects of EU legislation on domestic prices etc.).

Kingdom of Netherlands was a founding member of the European Community in 1967. In November 1993 the European Community transformed itself into the European Union.

Payment

in mil EUR

in % of GDP

in EUR per capita

VAT-based own resource
The VAT-based own resource is a member state's contribution calculated as the rate of 0.3% multiplied by the base, which equals 50% of the member state's Gross National Income (GNI). GNI is the well known Gross Domestic Product (GDP) minus money made by foreigners in the coutry, plus money made by the coutry's residents abroad. (Therefore, countries with a high proportion of foreign workers have their GNI much lower than their GDP - e.g. Luxembourg.) For the period 2007-2013 four countries have a rebate from the rate: instead of the standard rate of 0.3%, Austria pays 0.225%, Germany pays 0.15% and Netherlands and Sweden pay 0.1%.

-453.60

-0.37

-32.43

Customs and Agriculture duties paid by taxpayers
The EU sets and collects import duties (reported as customs duties and agriculture duties). Currently consumers in the EU pay more than EUR 20 billion on these levies. As these levies are indirect taxes, the importers who pay them to the EU are not those who bear the burden. Therefore, we multiply the sum of these taxes collected from all EU taxpayers by each member state's share in imports to the EU, in order to calculate how much the taxpayers of this country have contributed on these indirect taxes.

-436.10

-0.36

-31.18

Sugar levies
Within its Common Agriculture Policy, the EU sets quotas for the volume of sugar that can be produced in its member states. The governments of the member states then have to distribute the quotas to individual sugar producers. The sugar producers pay the EU fees for these quotas. In 2007 the figure is positive for some countries, since the EU has paid compensation payments to some sugar processors for closing down their factories.